Problem Solving And Program Design In C (5th Ed.) - 5th Edition 5th Edition  (English, Paperback, Hanly)

Problem Solving And Program Design In C provides an excellent introduction to programming, using the powerful but complicated language C. It is among the most popular programming textbooks for beginners in programming. 

Summary Of The Book

Problem Solving And Program Design In C helps readers learn the language through implementation of the certified Koffman five-step problem solving process. It follows an equalized approach to development of programs and a fascinating primer to ANSI C while also offering a progressive preface to pointers including programming in the initial chapters of the textbook.

With this book, students become well versed with the implementation of important data structures such as stacks, lists, trees, and queues and it also promotes their interpretation of different types of memory allocation systems. To improve the learning experience for students, it proposes the appropriate amount of didactic features that consist of unit-wise and topic-wise exercises, case studies and examples, display boxes as well as syntax, chapter-wise projects, and error discussions. This edition of the book has been revised so as to exhibit current advancements in C language and it also contains a new improved unit on Multiprocessing.

Writing with a style that is both friendly and professional, the authors teach the readers a comprehensive list of topics by using the programming language C. Problem Solving And Program Design In C is a book that lays the foundation for programmers to build their skills.

About The Authors

Elliot Bruce Koffman, born on 7th May, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a renowned American author. He has been a professor of computer and information sciences at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1974.

He has written several textbooks for over ten diverse programming languages which comprise C, C++, Ada, FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, Java, and Modula-2.

Koffman was honored with the SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution Award for an extraordinary record of curriculum development, teaching, publishing papers as well as numerous textbooks, and for helping to shape Computer Science education in the year 2009.

Jeri R. Hanly is the co-author of Problem Solving And Program Design In C.

She has also written undergraduate programming textbooks like Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists, and C Program Design for Engineers.